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Venezuela wins UK court decision in battle to get its gold back
October 6th, 2020
The UK’s appeals court has ruled in favor of President Nicolas Maduro’s government in the battle to repatriate Venezuela’s $1 billion worth of gold held at the Bank of England, reversing an earlier decision. The UK High Court ruled ...
Ruble’s slump has killed hopes of further rate cuts in Russia
October 6th, 2020
Traders are betting that the Bank of Russia will put interest rate cuts on hold after the ruble’s 9% slump against the dollar in the past three months. Forward-rate agreements, which have been predicting more monetary easing for most ...
How can cTrader benefit your brokerage?
September 30th, 2020
Many of you are already aware that Spotware is celebrating its 10th birthday – an entire decade in the industry filled with excellence, amelioration and new partnerships, all based on our core Traders First™ motto. But how exactly does the cTrader Suite help ...
European stocks opened in negative territory Wednesday; U.S. stock futures declined
September 30th, 2020
European stocks opened in negative territory Wednesday as investors react to the U.S. presidential debate, and gauge the investment landscape amid the coronavirus crisis. The pan-European Stoxx 600 slipped 0.3% at the start of trading, with travel and leisure ...
The Four D’s that define the future
September 28th, 2020
When the money runs out or loses its purchasing power, all sorts of complexity that were previously viewed as essential crumble to dust. Four D’s will define 2020-2025: derealization, denormalization, decomplexification and decoherence. That’s a lot of D’s. ...
Introducing brokers to pay civil monetary penalty
September 28th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued orders filing and settling charges against three registered introducing brokers (IB)—EOX Holdings LLC of Houston, Texas; Futures International LLC of Chicago, Illinois; and OTC Europe LLP of London, United Kingdom—for failure to meet minimum ...
Lessons on inflation from the past
September 25th, 2020
This article examines two inflationary experiences in the past in an attempt to predict the likely outcome of today’s monetary policies. The German hyperinflation of 1923 demonstrated that it took surprisingly little monetary inflation to collapse the purchasing ...
China is killing the dollar
September 23rd, 2020
In the wake of the Fed’s promise of 23 March to print money without limit in order to rescue the covid-stricken US economy, China changed its policy of importing industrial materials to a more aggressive stance. In examining ...
Paris wins legal battle against Airbnb hosts in European high court
September 23rd, 2020
The European Court of Justice has upheld a French law that gives cities and towns the right to block short-term property rentals, a decision that may open the way for European cities to take action against Airbnb and similar ...
Inflation, deflation and other fallacies
September 15th, 2020
There can be little doubt that macroeconomic policies are failing around the world. The fallacies being exposed are so entrenched that there are bound to be twists and turns yet to come. This article explains the fallacies behind ...